This from ESPN today on Los Angeles 2028
"Since the Tokyo Games, the International Olympic Committee has invited host cities to propose new slates of sports to include in their programs, which is how breaking broke onto the Olympic stage in Paris and how skateboarding and surfing, also approved for 2028, entered the five-ring fray in Tokyo. Five sports will make their Olympic returns or debuts in Los Angeles, including lacrosse, which was last contested in the 1908 Olympics, and cricket, which awarded its last Olympic medal at the turn of the 20th century.
Flag football, which was added with a push from the NFL, and squash, which has come close to inclusion several times in the past 20 years, will award their first Olympic medals in L.A.
Baseball and softball, neither of which were played in Paris, make their return. Major League Baseball has said it is open to discussing potentially pausing the MLB schedule around the All-Star break to allow players to participate in the Games, a boon for the inclusion of the sport in future Games".
Correction - a stretch to call the version of lacrosse to be played as "lacrosse" because it isn't lacrosse but some version of pinball.
In 1908 they played REAL field lacrosse. Canada won the gold - no natives on that team - all white guys. Remains to be seen if the IOC will permit the Haudenosaunee to compete as a sovereign nation (which it is BTW). IOC decision should be coming shortly even though to US Government supports their inclusion. If they make it, they would have a shot at a gold medal in the format to be used.
https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news ... e-olympics
Softball will be played 1500 miles away in Oklahoma City as will Canoe slalom - There is not a regulation softball facility in LA Metro that seats more than 2,000 apparently. OK stadium seats 11,000
Flag football? really? Money does talk after all.
Breaking (which was a medal sport in Paris) won't be back in LA Likely because it isn't really a sport anyway.
